With the release of the Catalyst 12.6 Beta driver, AMD would also like to announce that we are moving away from our Monthly Catalyst release plan. Our goal is to ensure that every Catalyst release delivers a substantial benefit to our end users; as we have today with the release of the Catalyst 12.6a Beta. We will still continue with the Catalyst naming convention; Catalyst: Year.Month., You just won’t see a new driver every single month. We are confident that this will only benefit the end user; you’ll only need to upgrade to a new Catalyst driver, when it makes sense.

We would also like announce the introduction of our new AMD Issue Reporting Form. We made a number of improvements to the older Catalyst Crew Feedback form, making it more comprehensive, ensuring we get the best feedback possible. Feedback is very important in every product company’s life, especially in our fast paced environment. This is not just a check-box for us – we take these reports very seriously. We will review every report posted here and investigate every issue encountered. Please use this form whenever you encounter something worth mentioning.

· Please ensure that your System BIOS is up to date – some occurrences of this issue are related to outdated SBIOSResolves CrossFire scaling issues seen in AMD Catalyst 12.4 with Elder Scrolls: Skyrim CrossFireAMD Catalyst Control Center – Overdrive page is no longer intermittently missingAMD Catalyst Control Center – GPU Activity gauge is no longer missingAMD Radeon HD 7900 CrossFire Configuration – no longer results in system hang after cinematic in Call Of Duty: Black OpsHeroes and Generals: Blocky corruption in scenes with smoke effects when run in DirectX 11 mode are no longer experienced.Dirt Showdown: Improves scaling for CrossFire configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 SeriesHDMI audio is no longer disabled if the connected HDTV is powered Off/On.

Featuring full support for the new WDDM 1.2 driver model, this new driver enables customers to take full advantage of the model’s features as applications are updated to leverage them. These features include: